this is "nightline." >> tonight, the final days of an american prince. an intimate look at the life, loves and legacy of jfk junior. interviews with post friends and rare video. and the moments leading up to that fateful flight. plus balance of power plays. history in the house. the first female speaker regaining the gavel. >> this house will truly be the people's house. >> with the most diverse freshman class ever in congress, what the power shift means for the shutdown over the wall. >> i have never had so much support as i have in the last week over my stance for border

security. >> the new era of dividing government. first, the "nightline" 5. nightline" 5.

good evening. thank you for joining us. jfk junior was america's beloved son. first stealing the nation's heart as john john, later

capturing headlines while stealing his share of hearts, and then he would break our hearts. tonight our exclusive look at his final days. >> excuse me. >> for jfk junior it seemed birthrig birthright. the looks, and sadly the luck. at all times a president's son, america's royal. linked to model cindy crawford and madonna, sarah jessica parker and others. >> john was used to the kind of attention that he got being his mother's and father's son, but things were different when he was voted people's sexiest man. >> do you mind all the stuff about you? >> people can say a lot worse things about you, right, than you're attractive and look good in bathing suit. >> now nearly 20 years after his death, an intimate look at the life and legacy of john f

kennedy junior. rarely seen footage of his battles with the paparazzi and new details about the day and night of that flight. >> and now the young man who we remember playing under john kennedy's desk is here to introduce his uncle. >> the kennedy family has begun to arrive. >> he reentered the national political spot at the 19 8 democratic convention. >> i'm not a political leader. but i can speak for those of my age who have been inspired by teddy to give their energy and their ideas to their community and not just to themselves. >> he was eloquent, articulate. it was finely crafted as a speech. he wrote that speech and he obviously suddenly saw the possibility of another candidate in the white house. >> no longer the little boy etched the nation's memory at his father's funeral. >> as t coffin passed by,

jackie leaned down and said now say good-bye to your father, and john delivered what would be the world's most famous salute. >> good-bye, daddy, he said. president kennedy's son saying farewell to the father he loved and knew for such a short time. >> it was john john's third birthday. >> john and his mother adored each other. >> jackie, she didn't want him flying. one of the reasons for that was the horrible track record the kennedys had with flying. >> she had a premonition he would die that way. if jackie was alive, he would not have pursued getting his pilot's license, but she had died. >> one year after his mother's passing, the ambitious bachelor launched his publication,

"george". >> meet "george". >> what john did was different. there were serious ideas within the pages of "george" and there were also flashy celebrities. >> this magazine is going to stand or fall on whether or not it's a good magazine, and a couple issues on down the line my last name isn't really going to matter. >> while john was at the tail end of his relationship with daryl hannah, he went to buy a suit at calvin klein. there was a personal shopper there. >> she was graceful, professional, lovely. >> stunning, blonde, personable. >> carolyn was a strong woman. i think he loved that. >> when john and carolyn would walk into an event, the entire place would stop.

carolyn was really having a hard time with paparazzi. it was a slow erosion of happiness of privacy that she didn't know how to handle. >> from the very beginning they had a volatile relationship, and unfortunately the cameras were always there to record it. there was one particularly revealing moment when they were dating and on the beach and suddenly they encountered the paparazzi. >> come on, john. don't [ bleep ] do that. >> you don't come up to my girlfriend when she's on the beach alone and start taking photographs of her. no. >> you have a partner who's not used to this, and she didn't ask for this. that made john angry. >> despite being hounded by paparazzi, the couple remained strong. >> they were always giggling and laughing and kissing and hugging and they brought everyone into their circle.

♪ >> with carolyn, it was kind of a remarkable moment where he said i'm out. i'm done. i found the one. >> john actually managed to keep his marriage to carolyn in 1996 a total secret. he summoned all his friends to an island off the coast of georgia. >> after slipping away for their intimate wedding, life back in new york city was anything but peaceful. >> carolyn started to have a lot more fears and anxiety. she really couldn't go out day or night without being followed and filmed. >> in july of 1999, the young couple along with carolyn's sister planned what would be a fateful trip to a wedding in maine. >> they were headed to the wedding of bobby kennedy's

youngest child. >> they would get in john's plane, fly to martha's vineyard. they would drop off lauren. >> the group met at an airport outside of new york where carolyn made what may have been her last phone call. >> she had just gotten to the airport. she was calling to say they were ready to take off. she said i love you. i said i know, and then we hung up. it's heart breaking. you remember the last thing you say to your best friend. >> john actually took off at 8:38 p.m. it was just about getting dark. >> i flew out the same night and almost the same time as john did. i was going to nantucket. when i flew past martha's vineyard that night i said to my nephew, look, there's martha's vineyard. he said i can't see it. i looked out, i said i can't see it either. >> they never made it to martha's vineyard. kennedy's plane went down in the

atlantic seven miles from shore. he was 38. >> it was midnight. the phone rang, and it was a friend at the airport waiting for them. and it was one of those moments where the minute i heard his voice, i just knew. >> this is an abc news special report. >> good morning. this is abc news head quarters in new york. we're interrupting your program this morning for information involving john f kennedy junior, the son of the slain president. abc news has reports that his plane is missing. >> as time went on the searchers began to find wreckage. it began to wash up on shore on martha's vineyard. >> the wheel from an aircraft has been found, and a sneaker has been found. >> a suitcase with lauren's name on it. a headrest from the plane. a prescription bottle that had carolyn basset kennedy's name on

it. >> after days they found the bodies still strapped in their seats. >> investigators with the national transportation safety board determined this was pilot error. essentially john f kennedy junior suffered from what's called spatial disorientation. essentially he flew into a haze. it was at night. he had trouble seeing. he was only certified for visual flight conditions. >> he's descending. he goes right. he climbs. he goes left. he comes up. then he makes this catastrophic turn, this tremendous drop. it's like the elevator suddenly dropped out of the shaft. it's terrifying. >> we lost a dream. we lost a legacy. we lost so many things. they were our prince and princess. >> the basset family lost their two daughters. it's unthinkable. how do you recover from something like that? >> john was the last glimmer of

hope of the fantasy that there was once a spot called camelot. >> the last days of jfk junior's is streaming on hulu and our watch abc app. next the change of power in washington. inside day one of government divided. ith type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. oh! no increased risk? ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪

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democrats take control of the house flexing newfound power. while the president digs in on the shutdown and the border wall. here's abc >> this house will truly be the people's house. >> reporter: one for the history books for the second time nancy pelosi elected speaker of the house. >> congratulations, madam speaker. >> pelosi and the democrats are now in control of the house of representatives. this shift in power coming after a nearly two-week long government shutdown. congress and the president in a ste stalemate over the border wall sending the markets into a nose dive and putting americans on edge. in a surprise visit to the white house briefing room today, the president congratulated pelosi. >> i just want to start off by congratulating nancy pelosi on being elected speaker of the house. it's a very, very great achievement. and hopefully we're going to work together.

>> but also insisted on funding for his border wall. >> i have never had so much support as i have in the last week over my stance for border security. >> president trump is stubborn as ever. feels like this is exactly what he was sent to washington to do and to deliver on this border wall is his number one priority. as for democrats, they just took the majority. they're not in a mood to compromise or capitulate to president trump. >> pelosi helped to lead the democrats back to power in the house. her influence seen in that pink wave of women who also took office today. this freshman class in the 116th congress is the most diverse in u.s. history. among their ranks the first muslim and native american congresswoman. 36 freshman women were elected bringing the total women in the house to 102. >> we all have the ability and the privilege to serve with over

100 women members of congress. the largest number in history. >> nancy pelosi is the first person in nearly 60 years to reclaim the speaker's gavel. >> after becoming the first female speaker of the house in 2007, and back then i talked with her just before she took up the position. >> think of all those girls out there and the young women. how critical is your potential election to inspiring them? >> i hear from young girls and women and the fathers of young girls all the time saying that my success is an inspiration to them. >> nancy pelosi has been a trail blazer. she recognizes the power that is represented by the diversity. it's something that's beneficial for democrats, particularly as they face down president trump in this era. >> thank you so much. >> among today's history maker

abigail spanberger. the first woman to represent virginia's mostly rural 7th district. >> it feels amazing to be part of the wave of so many incoming members, particularly women. tremendous backgrounds and perspectives. i'm excited to see what we can contribute and bring to the house. >> she's a former cia agent and flipped her historically republican district by running as a moderate, a tactic that appealed to many women voters in her district. >> she didn't waste time trashing her opponent. >> she was straight up. no foolishness. it was all real. and sorely needed. >>. >> mikey sheyrl also found support among women. >> we first met her last year at the second women's march where she was campaigning with her daughter running at the antithesis to president trump and his policies. she's got four kids and she coaches their soccer and la crosse teams.

she's also a former navy pilot and federal prosecutor who decided to run, she says, after becoming disenchanted with her district's 22-year republican incumbent. >> serving my country for my entire adult life to be here and have a congressperson who wouldn't meet with his constituents, that offended my sense of democracy. >> i think she'll stand up to the trump mcconnell agenda. >> and stand up she has. she officially requested her congressional pay be withheld until the government shutdown is over tweeting i came here to govern not engage in partisan politics at the expense of hard working americans. >> a shutdown. >> stretching into day seven. >> in closer to a resolution. >> the partial government shutdown is now 13 days in. president trump saying yesterday -- >> it could be a long time or quickly. it could be a long time. it's too important a subject to walk away from. >> at issue the president's

demand for more than $5 billion for a border wall. the democrats offer for border security measures, 1 $.3 billion but not a dime for a wall. >> president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. plain and simple. >> the impact of this standoff is being felt across the country, literally piling up from national parks like joshua tree in california where campgrounds have been closed to museums shuttered in the nation's capital. >> closed. >> for many of the 800,000 federal employees who have been furloughed or are working without pay, the effects of the shutdown are even more direct and personal. >> i just want to know what options i have as a furlough worker in the federal government. >> i'm in good standing with both my banking institution and so i'm look agent how we can negotiate and look at some options stretching some things out. >> furloughed nearly two weeks

ago now, daryl burton is prioritizing the essentials. college money for his son. >> this is my son, aaron. we know as responsible parents we make sure we do what is necessary. >> burton who has worked in government agencies for more than three decades says federal workers shouldn't be caught in a political ping-pong match over the wall. >> i don't believe those furloughed should be thrown in this as a bargaining chip, if you will. put us back to work so we can do what we need to do and take care of our families. >> pelosi put out new bills but president trump says he will not support them, but it may not be his entire decision. >> president trump cannot count on united control of washington to push his agenda forward. we'll be right back with the final thought.

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finally tonight, it was john

f kennedy junior who said people often tell me i could be a great man. i'd rather be a good man. thank you for watching "nightline." as always, our full episodes are streaming on hulu. thanks for the company, america. good night.